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Presidential Retribution (Executive Watch)

Trump Opens a Bogus Investigation Against the Fed Chief for Refusing to Slash Interest Rates
Donald Trump has long been putting political pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to give a short-term boost to the economy that…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Investigates Another Senator, Also a Veteran, for Reminding the Military to Ignore His Illegal Orders
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 • Executive Watch
Trump Freezes Funding to Punish Blue States for Welfare Fraud While Leaving Red States Untouched
There is a real and long-recognized scandal concerning fraudulent schemes to siphon off welfare spending in Minnesota.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Vetoes Bills Depriving States of Congressionally Approved Funding to Exact Revenge for Opposing Him
Donald Trump’s first two vetoes of his second term fit his pattern of using his power, not for the interests of the American people, but for personal…
 • Executive Watch
Abandoning All Pretense, Trump Threatens to Pull Licenses of TV Stations Simply for Criticizing Him
When the Trump administration intimidated ABC into briefly suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV show in September, the supposed rationale was a…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatened to Withhold Federal Funds From Indiana Unless it Approved His Plan to Gerrymander its Electoral Map
Initially, it was just a rumor that Donald Trump was threatening to withhold federal funds from Indiana if its legislature didn’t approve his…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Wants His MAGA-Controlled FTC Board to Use its Antitrust Powers for a Hostile Takeover of CNN by a Billionaire Tech Buddy
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Federal Trade Commission in March by firing the Democratic commissioners on the board has given him considerable personal…
 • Executive Watch
The DOJ Is Moving to Designate Non-MAGA Americans Engaging in Wrongthink as Domestic Terrorists
Donald Trump has issued a national security directive so broad and vague it can be used to designate any ideological opponent as a terrorist threat to…
 • Executive Watch
Hegseth Wants Pentagon to Investigate Sen. Mark Kelly, a Veteran, for Reminding Military Servicemembers of Their Oath Not to Follow Illegal…
A hit dog will holler, and as evidence grows that Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth issued illegal orders to murder shipwreck survivors in…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatens to Execute Members of Congress for Reminding Soldiers that Obeying Illegal Military Commands Is Illegal
Sometimes Donald Trump’s abuses of his executive power are subtle, and sometimes they are flagrantly, blazingly obvious.
 • Robert Tracinski
FCC Chair Reups His Boss' Post Demanding that NBC Fire Seth Myers
Donald Trump’s attempt to ban Jimmy Kimmel from television may have backfired, but he hasn’t given up on the idea that he can silence his critics.
 • Robert Tracinski
After Neutering America’s Big Media, Trump Goes After the BBC
Donald Trump’s lawsuits against big media companies—backed up by the threat to abuse regulatory power against them—have made U.S.
 • Robert Tracinski
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